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Question: Can I do a “binary dump” using PERL? Meaning, can I “compile” a PERL script to binary form? If this is possible, I would greatly appreciate some “how to.”
Question: I have completed my form but cannot figure out how to get theinformation sent back to me. In other words, when someone clicks SUBMITthey get an error message! I
Question: The graphics on my Web pages are all now in GIF format. Someone told me that I should convert all these GIFs over to JPEG format, because it is
Question: I want to create ‘back’ and ‘exit’ buttons that look the same as the’submit’ and ‘reset’ buttons that are in the <FORMS> commands,and place them all together in a
Question: How can I implement a counter on my page, like the oneyou use, to show how many visitors have been to my site? Answer: The most common way to
Question: Is there a document that explains the basics of online computing? Answer: No. There is no single document that can explain it all. The world ofonline computing is vast
Question: When my form has just one text box, I can submit it by pressing theEnter key, but not when there are more text boxes or other controls inthe form.Any
Question: I teach an Internet class to middle school students. Mycomputers only have 33 MHz processors and no multimedia capabilities. Howmuch effect is the processing speed having on my Internet
Question: I’m a print media designer looking to expand into Web page design (surprise, surprise). I have become comfortable with HTML but know nothing about programming and programming languages. I
Question: I would like to have our customers upload their own pages to our virtual server, however, we can’t give individual telnet or ftp access. Is their a way to
Question: I am wondering if you know of a good search engine for a Windows NT server, running Netscape Commerce. Answer: There are more and more search engines availableon Windows
Question: Is there a way to disable the View Source menu optionin the Netscape browser so that when someone tries to look at thedocument source they can’t see it? Answer:
Question: I have a monitor resolution set to 640×480. When I see the image on a monitor with a resolution of 800×600, it looks different. How do I create an
Question: How can I put an initial value in a TEXTAREA? works just fine, but it doesn’t seem to work with textareas. Answer: You say that you did try using
Question: Does Centura support the Unicode consortium? Is there a way to use it with Centura Web Developer? And with SQLWindows 5.0.X? Answer: First, find out what your Unicode requirements
Question: I’m running SQLBase Server 5.2.1-PTF8 for Windows NT, and I’m running SQLConsole 1.0.2 on a Workgroups 3.11 client. All clients are WFW3.11 and communicate with the server via TCP/IP.
Question: I am developing an application in VB 4.0 connecting to an Access 7.0Database. I do not want to set up database security with groups, users andpasswords. All I want
Question: In Word 7.0, under Tools, Options, File Locations tab, there is a dialog that comes up to define the folder containing certain types of files. This dialog allows folder
Question: I’ve got ten pages of code and there’s an “If” on the first page, a bunch of “If…EndIf” statements throughout the code and the “EndIf” that corresponds with the
Question: When I use my add record button on my form I get blank fields, like I should. However, after I add the new info and move to a different
Question: How does one calculate time differences. I know there’s a function to calculate date differences.I am coding a database program which includes calculating the difference between a start time
Question: I have been trying to right a routine to recurs sub directories and scan for files. Then the light came on!!! What is the call to the windows API
Question: Would you please tell me how to pass variables from forms to forms? Is that we can use the Tabs in general or use pass by reference? Thanks! Answer:
Question: Could you tell me why this takes a 150MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM just to run fast enough to catch MCI time output? Private Sub Rply_Timer_Run()Dim ReplayTime As
Question: If I have a return-to-home link in the second frame on my Web page, how can I keep it from opening a second browser? Answer: Use “TARGET=_top” in the
Question: What parameters I need to query a finger server to check if new POP3 e-mail has arrived ?Finger is commonly used for getting connected users information (sending a blank
Question: I would like to change SRC picture of thesensitive map, onClick on some area of same picture.With JavaScript it works that if instead ofHREF =”some.URL” on imagespot you just
Question: How do you write javascript output to a file on the server and then retrieve it later? Answer: Unfortunately, like VBScript, JavaScript cannot write to files on yourserver or
Question: Is SqlWindows an OLE Automation Server or is it only an OLE client? Answer: SQLWindows (and Centura Team Developer), in its current incarnation, is an OLE automation CLIENT. That
Question: I’ve heard about a configuration keyword for SQLBase that groups multiple COMMITs together. Does this keyword exist, and under whatconditions would it be useful? Answer: Yes. The keyword “groupcommit”
oorly-written code and nonconformance to coding standards may get an application ready to ship a little more quickly, but often becomes a nightmare after application
This tip shows you how to extract the pixels from an entire image or from a piece of an image. The following code shows the
A quick way to insert a separator bar in the menu items in .NET’s MainMenu component is to type a ‘-‘ (a hyphen) and press
In C++, it is possible to declare as a friend a class that was not declared anywhere else. This behavior is specified in the C++
re you a Microsoft developer? Have you heard about SharePoint? Do you use SharePoint in your organization? If you answered “yes” to any of these
o continuous integration is an important part of your development process and you’re eager to include a code-coverage check as part of your automated builds,
n Part 1 of this article series you saw how to get started with Direct3D, Microsoft’s high-performance three-dimensional graphics library. That article explained how to
++03 has a very limited set of tools for enforcing constraints on templates. Consequently, templates code becomes messy, unintelligible, and buggy. With the addition of
ust a few weeks ago, the Open Handset Alliance pushed its baby “Android” out into the spotlight. While no devices available on the market run
icrosoft has gone to great lengths to help you make your software applications more appealing to users. You can create rich user experiences with Windows
To gain focus on a form in an MDI Windows Application quickly, use the Form.Activate method. This method moves the form to the front of
Wrapping the result of an XQuery query into an XML document is very useful if you’re working with atomic values. The following Java program uses